Sylvia Carrizales is a San Antonio native and communications professional who has loved Tejano music since she first heard it in the early 1990s. Sylvia started writing about the Tejano music scene in 1995 while a student at John Jay High School where she started a column for the school’s paper called "Tejano Beat."

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Michael Salgado, Ramon Ayala share stage on Saturday

The concert takes place at one of the newer San Antonio clubs, El Fuerte, located on 7011 San Pedro Avenue. Visit the club’s website at: http://elfuertesa.com.

Salgado lists Ayala as one of his influences, along with Cornelio Reyna and others. Many say that Salgado sounds similar to the accordion legend. And Salgado is an accordion legend in his own right and is known as “El Zurdo de Oro,” for his ability to play the accordion with his left hand.

Ayala, as many know, was in the news in December of last year, when he was detained in Mexico for 40 days after he was arrested while performing at a party allegedly for a Mexican drug cartel leader. All charges were dropped and Ayala has performed many concerts since the incident. Read a March 17, 2010, article from the McAllen Monitor that details a press conference Ayala held to discuss last year’s incident: “Ramon Ayala breaks silence on concert incident.”